Silk Production and the Silk Trade. Silk is a textile of ancient Chinese origin, woven from the protein fibre produced by the silkworm to make its cocoon, and was developed, according to Chinese tradition, sometime around the year 2,700 BC.
60 Whole Foods Cashier Salaries. Whole Foods Cashiers earn $19,000 annually, or $9 per hour, which is 5% higher than the national average for all Cashiers at $18,000 annually and 105% lower than the national salary average for âall working Americans.
No executive makes more than 14 times the employee average. (Mackey's salary last year was $342,000.) In January, Whole Foods announced that it had committed to buy a year's supply of power from a wind-power utility in Wyoming.